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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.7
Dominik Karall wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 June 2004 07:56, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>Ok, it's out there. The most notable change may be the one-liner that
>>should fix the embarrassing FP exception problem. Other than that, we've
>>had a random collection of fixes and updates since rc3. cifs, ntfs,
>>cpufreq. ide, sparc, s390.
>>
>>Full 2.6.6->2.6.7 changelog available at the same places the release is.
>>
>> Linus
>
>
> Is there any reason why the sis900-fix-phy-transceiver-detection.patch wasn't
> moved to the stable tree? It's a now for a long time in -mm patches and
> without that patch, a lot of sis900 cards does not work in full-duplex
> 100Tx-FD mode.

It still needs work, as the updated driver appears to scan the first phy
incorrectly, which IMO would break _other_ situations that are presently
working.

I'll try to get to it in the next couple days; the short answer is to
look at other PCI ethernet drivers and note how they scan MII.

Jeff


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